Outlines in PsalmsThis outline is a companion to a previous outline: Our Heart Is Not Turned Back - Psalm 44:9-26 I. The Record of Past History (vs. 1-3) II. The Response of Confident Faith (vs. 4-8) III. The Reality of Present Tribulation (vs. 9-16) IV. The Refusal to Forsake the Lord (vs. 17-22) V. The Request of a Troubled Soul (vs. 23-26)

I. The Record of Past History Psalm 44:1 – “To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.” Psalm 44:2 – “How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.” Psalm 44:3a – “For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them.” Psalm 44:3b – “But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.” II. The Response of Confident Faith Psalm 44:4 – “Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.” Psalm 44:5 – “Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.” Psalm 44:6 – “For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. Psalm 44:7 – “But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.” Psalm 44:8 – “In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.”“Selah.”III. The Reality of Present Tribulation Psalm 44:9-10 – “But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.” Psalm 44:11-12 – “Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.” Psalm 44:13-14 – “Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.” Psalm 44:15-16 – “My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, for the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.”IV. The Refusal to Forsake the Lord Psalm 44:17a – “All this is come upon us.” Psalm 44:17b – “Yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.” Psalm 44:18 – “Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way.” Psalm 44:19 – “Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.” Psalm 44:20 – “If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god . . .” Psalm 44:21 – “. . . Shall not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.” Psalm 44:22 – “Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”V. The Request of a Troubled Soul Psalm 44:23 – “Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.” Psalm 44:24 – “Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?” Psalm 44:25 – “For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.” Psalm 44:26 – “Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.”